Keith wrote: There are approximately one million prelit Westies in existence. At least, it seems that way. I think the reason the baby Radical Westie didn't do well is that Westfield seems to be pretty terrible at setting up a chassis. Every time they send a car to a magazine test, it's simply not ready. When they shipped the Miata-based car off to EVO for a test, they left the brake pads from the donor Miata in the car and didn't even bother to align it properly!
Yes I’ve seen that on the UK forums. Anything that looks vaguely like a real 7 is called a pre lit Westie to try and increase its value. Confusion is added because in used to be easy to keep the donor vehicles registration so it was hard to tell how old the car really is. Add in production changes over time at Westfield and the host of other replicas out there and I've seen multi page discussions on if a car is or isn't a Westie!